rmr allows R developers to program in the mapreduce framework, and to all developers provides an alternative way to implement mapreduce programs that strikes a delicate compromise betwen power and usability. It allows to write general mapreduce programs, offering the full power and ecosystem of an existing, established programming language. It doesn’t force you to replace the R interpreter with a special run-time — it is just a library. You can write logistic regression in half a page and even understand it. It feels and behaves almost like the usual R iteration and aggregation primitives. It is comprised of a handful of functions with a modest number of arguments and sensible defaults that combine in many useful ways. But there is no way to prove that an API works: one can only show examples of what it allows to do and we will do that covering a few from machine learning and statistics. Finally, we will discuss how to get involved.

People planning to attend this session also want to see:

Antonio Piccolboni

Per data LLC

Antonio Piccolboni is a data scientist with both industrial and academic experience. His recent work includes the design and implementation of a big data analysis package in R, social network analysis for a top 20 global web site and web analytics for a major web ratings company. He is currently an independent consultant with clients including Dataspora and Revolution Analytics. He blogs at blog.piccolboni.info about big data and analytics. His papers have received more than 800 citations and his Erdős number is 3.